William Hooper wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > [snip] >> But that's a per-box per-repo specific change, with per-distro, per-repo >> variations for the end users to figure out for themselves. And then it >> won't fail over at all if the url you pick goes away. Aren't computers >> supposed to work for you instead of the other way around? > > Have you seen this setup from Guru Labs? > http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/YUM_automatic_local_mirror.php > > It sounds like it does what you want it to. It uses DNS to redirect > requests for a mirror list to a page you control without changing the > clients. They are actually directing to a local repo which I'd like to avoid since I don't want to copy anything unless at least one update requests it, but I suppose similar contortions would work to force the same external repo to be used. At least someone else recognizes the problem. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com